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But, since Americans basically invented them about 50 years ago, it wouldn't be very hard start work on them again. Or, we could just wait for China to start building export models.. :rolleyes: (We gave them the blueprints). Now that I think about it, thorium reactors are the "Silver Bullet", we need to save us from pollution etc.. It's too bad we didn't start using them 30 or 40 years ago... |
I'm glad that I already have my own solar pv, solar thermal, woodburner, ashp, wind turbine, rain water harvesting and full long term survival systems in place. At the moment, they all just save a huge amount of money, but when it really starts to go wrong, at least I know my children will be just fine.
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Nuclear is often cited as being the cheapest source of power, but only when it is heavily subsidized by governments - "Here, we'll give you land and help you build the plant, give you all the water and air for your needs, then protect your fuel and waste shipments, and protect your plant from terrorists. And if you ever have a problem, we'll help you clean it up and use the public health care system to treat your workers and neighbors. Oh, and we'll call nuclear green since the plant itself doesn't emit much CO2, then the power you produce will get subsidised." Of course, it's the same for big time polluters like coal mines and power plants (maybe without the protection of fuel shipments). Quote:
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using Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR) technology. Thorium: Green Friendly Nuclear Power, The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor, LFTR, LiFTeR, Thorium fuel But, we will not be able to build them in the USA, due to the political landscape. We will only act on our problems AFTER there has been a major disaster, caused by power loss in the gird. "How can a nuclear warhead be used to protect a country? " Haha, if you grew up in the USA in the 1950s, you would know. It's a MAD idea.. Mutual assured destruction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nuclear deterrents might have been what prevented a world that glows in the dark. |
Spain’s Power-Price Ruling Burdens Utilities, Not Just Consumers
News from Spain, relating to wind power in a way..
Spain Last week the energy regulator recommended that the government lower regulated payments to power companies, delay investment in new capacity and use revenue from the sale of carbon-emission permits to cover some of the cost of renewable- energy subsidies. Seems like they got on an unsustainable path and now are looking for some daylight. |
The Matt Ridley Prize for Environmental Heresy
Matt is a funny guy! He wants one turbine left up, as a history lesson..
It is precisely this consensus-worshipping, heretic-hunting environment where the greatest errors can be made. There are some 3,500 wind turbines in Britain, with hundreds more under construction. It would be a shame for them all to be dismantled. The biggest one should remain, like a crane on an abandoned quay, for future generations to marvel at. They will never be an efficient way to generate power. But there can be no better monument to the folly of mankind. Matt Ridley: The Beginning Of The End Of Wind I guess cleaning up the mess isn't so funny. I hope they don't cost as much to clean up, as they did to install.. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r4lBBS9XFh...U/s1600/01.jpg Or, is the cleanup built into the original cost? |
I wouldn't rely on information from a "think tank" that receives about 10k pounds a year in membership fees and 500k pounds a year from "secret" donors.
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If you had as much money as Lord Lawson (the guy that started the GWFP blog from which you are drawing your dis-information), you wouldn't be favorably disposed toward efforts to develop alternative energy on a large scale either. But you aren't rich and you aren't royal, you are just a retired guy living in a humble house, trying to get by. But amidst your display of the durability of ignorance (speaking of monuments), you have inadvertently exposed an important truth, when you were commenting on Spain's temporary shift in energy policy: Quote:
(* If you really want to affix blame accurately, forget your fixation with Spanish windmills, go after the elite financial system, starting with the US *) This is all completely unrelated to the development of large scale alternative energy, with the exception that now Spain doesn't have the budget to continue the aggressive development of AE that they had before. Yes, in fact, alternative energy is not as cheap as fossil fuel, and yes, in fact, wind energy is not as constant as power output from a fossil fuel plant. It will take a huge amount of work, a huge amount of money and most importantly a huge amount of energy to put in place a global AE system. The global AE system will never be able to supply the level of energy that we have habituated to... not even close. It shouldn't be surprising to you that the amount of economic and technical and industrial activity that a society is able to engage in, is directly tied to available energy (more accurately excess available energy). Developing a new global AE system will require EXCESS available energy. NOTE: Quote:
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"Perform a thought experiment". Don't have to. I just watch the news.
Because of the price of gasoline, people have started to cut back on luxury items, like going out to eat, movies, cable and phone services.. Just those few items are going to "depress economic activity", even more. If gas gets up to 6 or 8 bucks a gallon, those folks that drive 100 miles a day back and forth to work, might be in serious trouble. They are going to have to disconnect their cable and use an antenna! Forget buying anything but what's needed to survive. I went to a movie a couple weeks ago. I liked it, but it was kinda weird. No line to buy a ticket.?. I sat there in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon and watched a very popular movie. Chronicle - Rotten Tomatoes But, I was totally alone in the theater. I've never been to a movie where there weren't at least a couple dozen people in attendance. (I've been going to the local movie houses for about 40 years). I realize that only a few elderly people were running the whole place, (AMC Burlington Cinema 10) but how can they afford to stay open with such low attendance? Before I left, I noticed there was only 15 or 20 cars in the lot. Most times, the lot is over-flowing into the long-walk parking. Anyways, when I left the movie that day, I was wondering if this was going to be a trend.?. |
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